OpenAI’s new realtime voice models are built for developers. But the impact could show up in the everyday tools students, teachers, and schools already use.
This is exciting and dangerous in equal measure. Voice AI is a genuine unlock for students who already think well but struggle with the interface. A dyslexic student who knows what they want to ask but loses it while typing? This changes their life. But a student who never learned to formulate the question in the first place? Voice just makes the shortcut faster. The friction of typing was the last speed bump between a student and a borrowed answer. Remove it and you accelerate learning for the kids who own their thinking. You also accelerate dependency for the kids who don’t. The tool is neutral. The readiness of the student is everything.
This will be revolutionary, not in terms of technology, but in terms of US. essentially pulling us out of the chatbot/ text based era, and bring human-AI interaction into a more natural form.
This is exciting and dangerous in equal measure. Voice AI is a genuine unlock for students who already think well but struggle with the interface. A dyslexic student who knows what they want to ask but loses it while typing? This changes their life. But a student who never learned to formulate the question in the first place? Voice just makes the shortcut faster. The friction of typing was the last speed bump between a student and a borrowed answer. Remove it and you accelerate learning for the kids who own their thinking. You also accelerate dependency for the kids who don’t. The tool is neutral. The readiness of the student is everything.
In your opinion, will the teacher’s role become more important in the future, or will AI take the lead?
This is a very good article. It underscores that AI is here to stay in education, and in the long run, will help both students and teachers.
This will be revolutionary, not in terms of technology, but in terms of US. essentially pulling us out of the chatbot/ text based era, and bring human-AI interaction into a more natural form.
The genius steps in now😁🙏... actually the other side hate us😁🙏.